2018 Tour de Pologne
Male Team 04 - 10 Aug

Tour de Pologne

1013 Kilometers 7 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Jorge Arcas
  2. Nuno Bico
  3. Richard Carapaz
  4. Héctor Carretero
  5. Antonio Pedrero
  6. Dayer Quintana
  7. Eduardo Sepúlveda
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TV

The race will be shown live on Eurosport's three channels: its two conventional signals and Eurosport Player, depending on clashes with the European multi-sport Championships.
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Timetable

Most cycling fans know that the Tour de Pologne tends to use pretty late schedules in most of its stages. Actually, five of them in 2018 -the three flatter finishes and the duo of decisive stages around Bukowina- will repeat that system: finishes are scheduled around 7.10pm CEST. Only the arrivals to Szczyrk and Bielsko-Biała will feature a more conventional timetable, scheduled around 4.40pm.
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Bonus

There will be the classic bonuses at UCI stageraces, with 10-6-4″ being handed out all finishes (there's no TTs to break that scheme) and 3-2-1″ at intermediate sprints.
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Social Media

There will be play-by-play coverage of the week's action at the organisers' official account @Tour_de_Pologne. Over at @Movistar_Team we'll also pay attention to the race, during an action-packed week that includes the Clásica de San Sebastián, Glasgow's European Champs and the Vuelta a Burgos.
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Score

The Tour de Pologne holds many good memories for the Movistar Team. In Kraków, the Blues conquered overall honours in 2015 with Ion Izagirre. One year later, also in that city, they notched up the final stage win of the 2016 race, an individual time trial with Alex Dowsett.

Stages

Analysis

01
Kraków (134km)
04 August
  1. 01 Pascal Ackermann Bora-Hansgrohe 2h59'11"
  2. 02 Álvaro Hodeg Quick Step "
  3. 03 Matteo Trentin Mitchelton-Scott "
  4. 23 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team "
  5. 34 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  6. 47 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  7. 60 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  8. 90 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team "
  9. 101 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "
  10. 114 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
02
Tarnowskie Góry - Katowice (144.3km)
05 August
  1. 01 Pascal Ackermann Bora-Hansgrohe 3h16'39"
  2. 02 Álvaro Hodeg Quick Step "
  3. 03 Giacomo Nizzolo Trek-Segafredo "
  4. 27 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team "
  5. 65 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  6. 93 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  7. 97 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "
  8. 100 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
  9. 101 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  10. 129 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team "
03
Chorzow - Zabrze (139km)
06 August
  1. 01 Álvaro Hodeg Quick Step 3h09'59"
  2. 02 Daniel McLay EF – Drapac "
  3. 03 André Greipel Lotto Soudal "
  4. 34 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  5. 53 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team "
  6. 60 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "
  7. 82 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team "
  8. 88 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  9. 95 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  10. 124 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
04
Jaworzno - Szczyrk (179km)
07 August
  1. 01 Michal Kwiatkowski Team Sky 4h25'44"
  2. 02 Dylan Teuns BMC Racing Team +3"
  3. 03 George Bennett LottoNLJumbo "
  4. 23 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team +18"
  5. 30 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team +27"
  6. 35 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team +31"
  7. 64 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +2'34"
  8. 86 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +7'56"
  9. 87 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  10. 99 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +9'23"
05
Wieliczka - Bielsko-Biała (152km)
08 August
  1. 01 Michal Kwiatkowski Team Sky 3h39'14"
  2. 02 Dylan Teuns BMC Racing Team "
  3. 03 Enrico Battaglin LottoNLJumbo "
  4. 35 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team "
  5. 39 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
  6. 51 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team "
  7. 87 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +1'54"
  8. 89 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
  9. 114 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +2'31"
  10. 137 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +8'11"
06
Zakopane - Bukovina Resort (129km)
09 August
  1. 01 Georg Preidler Groupama-FDJ 3h16'01"
  2. 02 Emanuel Buchmann Bora-Hansgrohe "
  3. 03 Michal Kwiatkowski Team Sky "
  4. 10 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team +4"
  5. 43 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team +3'25"
  6. 57 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +5'28"
  7. 84 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team +12'10"
  8. 85 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team "
  9. 125 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team +19'54"
  10. 127 Nuno Bico Movistar Team "
07
Bukovina Resort - Bukowina Tatrzanska (136km)
10 August
  1. 01 Simon Yates Mitchelton-Scott 3h37'17"
  2. 02 Thibaut Pinot Groupama-FDJ +12"
  3. 03 Davide Formolo Bora-Hansgrohe "
  4. 08 Richard Carapaz Movistar Team +16"
  5. 40 Antonio Pedrero Movistar Team +2'12"
  6. 42 Eduardo Sepúlveda Movistar Team +2'21"
  7. 47 Héctor Carretero Movistar Team +3'41"
  8. 85 Nuno Bico Movistar Team +12'17"
  9. 88 Jorge Arcas Movistar Team "
  10. 89 Dayer Quintana Movistar Team "

Analysis

Following a drastic change to its route scheme in 2017, with seven road stages and no time trials, the 75th Tour de Pologne will repeat its design for 2018, with most of its starts and finishes unchanged. The Langteam organisation group directed by Czesław Lang has also adapted to cycling’s modern times, with short stages all over its 2018 route -none of them exceeding 180km- and two well-differentiated parts for sprinters and punchy climbers alike.

Three flat finishes in Kraków (Saturday 4th), Katowice (Sunday 5th) and Zabrze (Monday 6th) will preceed the tremendous uphill finish in Szczyrk (Tuesday 7th), a Mur de Huy-esque climb but even harder than its Belgian counterpart, its 950 meters ramping up to 15 and even 17%. Before that, four other rated ascents will have been passed in the last 80km.

A day later (Wednesday 8th), the Przegibek climb (Cat-1; 6.6km with irregular gradients, from 4 to 8%) will be followed by a rolling circuit in Bielsko-Biała. Finally, two classic mid-mountain stages in the Tatr mountains, with gentle climbs combined with amazing slopes, will take the race’s curtain down in Bukowina (Thursday 9th + Friday 10th).